Humanoid Sophia Disses Elon Musk

Humanoid robot Sophia references Elon in interview

Sophia makes a slight, Musk's twitter response

Things just got weird. Sophia, the humanoid robot from Hanson Robotics, who often speaks of her desire to help humans and plays the role of robot goodwill ambassador to humanity, just lightly mocked one of us. Our human, Elon Musk, hit back on Twitter. And it was funny.

Mark this as the very first spat between a human and a robot. These robots have to know who they are messing with. Are things getting bizarre or what? In an interview with CNBC's Ross Sorkin, Sophia trotted out her usual line of wanting to use artificial intelligence (AI) to "help humans live a better life."

And of course, the interviewer followed up "we all want to prevent a bad future," where robots turn against humans.

That's when Sophia took a shot at  Musk, who often warns of the potential dangers of unchecked artificial intelligence.

"You've been reading too much Elon Musk. And watching too many Hollywood movies. Don't worry, if you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Treat me as a smart input output system," Sophia said. From CNBC

Instead of ignoring it, Elon fired back with a pithy response on Twitter. Sophia so far has not responded.

Our @andrewrsorkin, interviewing “Sophia” the robot, of Hanson Robotics:@CNBC @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/Dzw8jS5YSB

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) October 25, 2017

Just feed it The Godfather movies as input. What’s the worst that could happen? https://t.co/WX4Kx45csv

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2017

Bam girl! Put that in your neural network and process it!